As states across the country begin to relax their indoor mask mandates, data from the CDC suggests that people in more than 3,200 counties — or 99 percent of the country — should keep wearing masks indoors. https://t.co/8VDYccpZzd pic.twitter.com/dGbG46Wusb
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To be fair, we’re still a few weeks away from the “two years to flatten the curve” promise.
So, if we’re going to bring back total mask mandates, we could still get rid of them before the two-year mark they gave us.
As states begin to relax their indoor mask mandates amid a decline in Covid case numbers, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest the new measures might be coming too soon.
Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and Oregon announced Monday that masks will soon no longer be required in schools. California Gov. Gavin Newsom will let the state’s indoor masking mandate end for vaccinated people on Feb. 15, although schoolchildren and the unvaccinated will still need to wear masks.
But according to data from the CDC, people in more than 3,200 counties — or 99 percent of the country — should be wearing masks regardless of their vaccination status. The CDC suggests wearing masks in places where the new case rate is higher than 50 cases per 100,000 or the testing positivity rate exceeds 8 percent.
The CDC issued its latest masking guidance in July during the delta variant surge. The guidance has remained since then, and the CDC’s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said last week that hospitalization and death rates were key factors in the continuing recommendations.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told NBC Chicago on Friday that mask mandates were part of a multilayered strategy to keep kids safe in schools, combined with vaccinations among staff members and students and proper ventilation in schools.
So I mean, states might do other things.
But liberal states won’t.
If the CDC is getting ready for a big mask push – which is what this implies – then these liberal states will go along with it.
I think there’s probably a new variant on the way.
This whole “eye of the storm” thing can only last for so long.
Soon enough, we will be back in the thick of the mania.
Or maybe they’ll just start a war with Russia instead.
Whatever the case: this is not going to end, and if you think it is going to end, you are delusional.